TECH TIDBITS RESOURCES

Tech Tidbits for classroom use

Picnik Picnik makes your photos fabulous with easy to use yet powerful editing tools. Tweak to your heart’s content, then get creative with oodles of effects, fonts, shapes, and frames. http://www.picnik.com/app VuvoxMedia creation made easy. http://www.vuvox.com/ PhotoPeach Live performance with your photos PhotoPeach helps you share your memories in a lively and vivid way by moving your photos like a video with your choice of background music, captions on each photo, fun effects, and more. http://photopeach.com/home

Glogster - Simply put, Glog is a kind of poster - fully designed by yourself! Glog is a fancy creation from text, images, music and video. No matter if it is colorful, sexy or emo. Your Glog will stand out. It gives you a perfect tool to express yourself. http://www.glogster.com/

Blabberize - allows you to create your own talking picture, basically a moving mouth on a still image. Users upload a photo of someone to Blabberize, select a mouth and then record a message. Once done, users can email a link to the Blabberize hosted page or embed the result. http://blabberize.com/

ToonDoo ToonDoo is a cool, comic-creating tool that allows you to create your own cool comic strips with just a few drag ‘n drops ‘n mouse clicks! http://www.toondoo.com/

Xtranormal - make 3-d Movies with cartoon characters. Text-to-movie. You write it, they act it. Great for creative writing. http://www.xtranormal.com/

My Brochure Maker Create and print a brochure or flyer in minutes. Choose a theme and then customize with photos and text. It's a great way to create brochures and flyers that work. http://www.mybrochuremaker.com/

Create a Graph Create, print and save graphs based on data you input. http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/CreateAGraph/

Dipity - create timelines. http://www.dipity.com/

Scrapblog - Turn your treasured moments into personalized creations with Scrapblog! Combine our designer content with your photos to make scrapbooks, slideshows, greeting cards, and everything in-between. Then share or print the results. With Scrapblog, creativity is a snap! http://www.scrapblog.com/

Free Online Surveys Create your own Free Survey in Under 10 Minutes! Create e-mail or website surveys. 100% secure and confidentialNo software to install. Very easy to use. . Live results - collected automatically (you don't have to do anything!) http://freeonlinesurveys.com/

Webspiration - for another free version of graphic organizer tool. Like a web version of Inspiration. http://www.mywebspiration.com/

Tikatok - Create a book. Upload images. Comment of the book. View online, embed, send via email or purchase hard copy http://www.tikatok.com/

Wordle- is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends. http://www.wordle.net/

Cool Text is a free graphics generator for web pages and anywhere else you need an impressive logo without a lot of design work. Simply choose what kind of image you would like. Then fill out a form and you'll have your own custom image created on the fly. http://cooltext.com/

Voki is a free service that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profile, and in email messages. http://www.voki.com/

Museum Box - This site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. What items, for example, would you put in a box to describe your life; the life of a Victorian Servant or Roman soldier; or to show that slavery was wrong and unnecessary? You can display anything from a text file to a movie. You can also view and comment on the museum boxes submitted by others http://museumbox.e2bn.org/

Gapminder - See countries change in ways that challenge old myths. You choose from the best statistics. http://www.gapminder.org/

Technology Tidbits Web Poster Wizard - This FREE tool allows educators to create a lesson, worksheet, or class page and immediately publish it online. Teachers can also set up classes and assign projects to students. Students complete the assignments by creating their own online projects or reports. Teachers and students can even add images and links to their pages. http://poster.4teachers.org/

Rubistar- RubiStar is a free tool to help teachers create quality rubrics http://rubistar.4teachers.org/

Quiz Star Create Online Quizzes and Organize Results http://quizstar.4teachers.org/

Kid Blog is designed for elementary and middle school teachers who want to provide each student with their own, unique blog. Kidblog's simple, yet powerful tools allow students to publish posts and participate in discussions within a secure classroom blogging community. Teachers maintain complete control over student blogs. http://kidblog.org/home.php

Read the Words - Upload word processing files, webpages, pdf, or almost anything and choose the reader to suit. Will also read in English, Spanish or French http://www.readthewords.com/